Mother has done well with this sibling. After all, I can teach respect but I cannot teach curiosity or determination. I can see she desires greatness; it shows in her displeasure when I make my jest towards her. Nonetheless, it is a valuable thing for me to learn about her; if she desires greatness, that is good. It is easier to encourage that. Her siblings seem content elsewhere and so, let it be as such. I do wonder though how she would take to... other systems of belief. Namely, I must watch her closely to discover whether or not she would be suitable to aid in a purging when the time is right. She is aware of her own siblings' weaknesses, I have no doubt. How willing is she to rectify those issues?

For now though, I am inclined to continue humouring her about the lands beyond and even those here. I do not provide her a response to her dare besides a cocked brow and a challenging smirk, a dare in itself for her to begin proving me otherwise. I will not stifle that drive. But for her to seem so disbelieving in the face of the truth? Perhaps she ought to venture into the lands beyond herself. I am sure she would be more than pleased with the ilk that reside there.

Her question makes my lip crinkle slightly, revealing the white of a tooth before I laugh, a stifled chuckle of a noise. I lower my head to her level, speaking earnestly to her now despite the implication. "When I fall, you may do as you desire with my body," I state simply, my eyes fixated onto the strange colour of her own - eyes do not lie - "for I will not stop rising until I am but fodder for the hungry mouths of this world."

I pause then, an ear flickering towards her as she giggles and chimes in; I offer her an inkling of a grin, a fleeting thing as I lift my head back up once more. "Your second spring," I begin, stretching out a limb once more as I peruse the forests below, "you and I shall do some hunting. There is a different kind of taste you must experience first if you are to become great, my sister." In a sense, it is the first time I have truly claimed her as a sibling. She is the first to prove that she is valuable in that sense. For that, I will have her treated to something special - our own kind, a taste - a lick - for she will need to experience it some day if she hopes to become a leader. After all, every battle leaves us with a mouth full of blood. She best learn about it soon.